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The Spy Who
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Christopher Boyce was sentenced to 68 years. He was supposed to die behind bars. Instead, in 2002, he walked free after just 23 years - and it was all because of one woman. Lawyer and author Cait Mills Boyce did the impossible.
Speaking with Charlie Higson, she exposes how she dismantled a seemingly unbeatable case, the psychological battles she fought, and the shocking truth: she fell for her client. The FBI's most wanted became the man she loved - and later, the man she had to leave.
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| 0:00.0 | From Audible Originals, I'm James Bond novelist Charlie Hickson, and this is The Spy Who. |
| 0:10.5 | Thank you for joining us for our final episode of The Spy Who sold codes and Cocaine. |
| 0:16.6 | Christopher Boyce, along with his accomplice, Dalton Lee, were two spies driven by a youthful ideology. |
| 0:23.6 | Infuriated with US foreign policy, Vietnam and Nixon, Christopher wanted to do something about it. |
| 0:31.5 | He stuck it to the man by selling satellite secrets to the Soviets. |
| 0:36.1 | Add to the fact the pair were often so stoned or high, |
| 0:39.6 | they'd simply had no idea what they were passing on. The ignorance of youth allowed them to not |
| 0:45.3 | think too hard about the consequences of their actions. But the seriousness of their sentences, |
| 0:51.2 | life for Dalton, 40 years for Christopher, meant they'd possibly be dying in jail. |
| 0:58.0 | Following Chris's jail break and his year and a half robbing banks and staying hidden, |
| 1:03.1 | the manhunt for him was at the time one of the biggest of the decade, meant that sentence |
| 1:07.5 | ballooned to 68 years. I'm talking with lawyer, author and former wife of Christopher |
| 1:13.6 | Boyce, Kate Mills Boyce. She co-wrote the book American Sons, the untold story of the |
| 1:20.0 | Falcon and the Snowman. It tells the story of life after the arrest, the court cases, the |
| 1:26.0 | appeals, and the falling in love. Through her dogged |
| 1:29.3 | determination, ferocious legal mind and her sense of fairness, Kate could see that Christopher |
| 1:35.5 | Boyce and Dalton Lee were being treated unfairly by the US justice system. All she had to do |
| 1:41.6 | was prove it, and it only took 20 years. |
| 1:48.6 | So welcome, Kate. It's lovely to meet you. Where about are you today? |
| 1:53.1 | I'm in Oregon. That's about as close as I'm going to identify myself for reasons. I'm sure you know. |
| 1:59.8 | Well, we've done a lot of these interviews with all sorts of people from the world of spying, |
| 2:04.2 | and yes, some of them have had to be very secretive. |
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